Bond

How to start

Open Your Pets, shift-right-click the companion and read Bond in Pet Details. Use the exact bond score when comparing it with the table. Whole-number tier boundaries are inclusive. Values between a tier's maximum and the next tier's minimum fall back to Stranger instead of rounding upward or retaining the previous relationship label.

For example, a value greater than the Stranger maximum but lower than the Acquaintance minimum is still labeled Stranger. The same fallback applies in every gap between adjacent ranges. This is an actual label rule. A temporary lower label in a gap does not prove that your pet lost all of its bond score.

Steps

1. Open Pet Hub > Your Pets and inspect the intended companion through Pet Details.
2. Read the bond score and relationship label together.
3. Compare the exact value with the inclusive ranges in the table.
4. If the value lies in a fractional gap, use Stranger as the relationship result.
5. After inactivity and a later join, check the value again before comparing it with an earlier screenshot.
6. Use level, rarity and ability requirements for gameplay planning. Do not count bond multipliers as active combat bonuses.

Reference

What can go wrong

There is no player coin payment that buys bond through the Bond display. The display is informational. Clicking it does not start training, purchase a tier or turn the listed multipliers into active effects. Buying a skin or permanent attachment also does not alter the relationship value.

Do not spend time repeatedly performing an action solely to force passive bond growth. Active time is not currently advancing it. If a relationship label looks unexpectedly low, read the value and check a fractional gap first. If the value itself decreased after inactivity, that is different from a label fallback.

Worked example

Pebble Whelp at exactly 39 Bond displays Acquaintance. Above that score but below 40, it displays Stranger. At the Companion minimum, it displays Companion.

Inactive pets lose 0.5 Bond per elapsed hour when you return to them. Check the refreshed score before comparing it with the ranges.

More to know

The relationship belongs to the individual pet rather than every pet of the same species. Duplicate species can therefore have different bond values. EXP Share trains selected pets' XP and does not create passive bond gain. A nickname or favorite indicator does not share the relationship between duplicates.

Keeping a pet active does not increase Bond. The tier multipliers do not strengthen pet effects. The tier table describes your relationship. These multipliers do not amplify your stats. Your active family-skill support continues to follow its own rarity-and-level formula.

Inactive decrease skips active pets. Its calculation uses the pet's last-active record when inactive collection data is loaded. You do not need to keep a menu open to see a continuously ticking decrease. Checking the same session's menu is different from loading the pet again after a period of inactivity.

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